CONSERVATIVES VERSUS LIBERALS IN INDONESIA

"Antara news agency reports that King Salman and his entourage will be staying in four hotels during his visit in Jakarta, namely The Westin Jakarta (“Lousy experience”), Raffles Hotel Jakarta, Ritz-Carlton Jakarta Mega Kuningan and JW Marriott.

Indonesians subjected to this 'Saudi mind-control' now occupy key positions in Indonesia's government.

Some of the 'mind-controlled' Indonesians have become preachers and teachers,

The Netherlands and the USA also offer scholarships to Indonesian students.

The Pentagon has trained most of the top Indonesian generals.

The Islamists in Indonesia are spreading anti-Chinese 'fake news'.

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Indonesian military chief General Gatot Nurmantyo reportedly sides with the Islamists, including the Islamic Defenders Front.

He is anti-China.

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In a 2015 booklet General Gatot Nurmantyo wrote that foreign powers were trying to infiltrate Indonesia's media, education system, Islamic organizations, corporations and political parties in order to weaken Indonesia, and seize control of its security apparatus and strategic industries.

Foreign powers are also trying to weaken Indonesia's youth by trafficking drugs and spreading a permissive culture, he wrote.

Was General Gatot referring to liberal Australians or conservative Islamists?

"In one speech, Nurmantyo predicted that a food shortage in China could trigger a flood of boat-borne refugees. He told listeners he would slaughter 10 cows and dump them into the sea to attract sharks that would devour the Chinese."

According to Al Araf, director of the human rights advocacy group Imparsial, Nurmantyo's objectives are twofold: to promote his own political ambitions and to gain support for an expanded role for the military.

Hary Tanoe is close friends with the politicians who are using Islam to try to achieve power.

"Hary Tanoe created his own political party last year: the United Indonesia Party (Perindo).

"The party plans to field candidates for office, Tanoe among them, in the near future.

"The Indonesian politicians who are closest to Trump and Tanoe, Setya Novanto and Fadli Zon - the speaker and vice speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively - have warm relations with the Islamist radicals who have been organizing mass protests in Jakarta this fall against a Christian governor."

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Hary Tanoe has been friends with General Wiranto, who reportedly has financed militant Islamist militias, and who is known to be close friends with the Pentagon.

Hary Tanoe and Trump plan to build two 'six-star' luxury resorts in the Bogor area of West Java and in Bali.

The Bogor resort will include a theme park, Trump's first golf course in Asia, and a brand-new toll road linking the resort to Jakarta.

Hary Tanoe is allied to Setya Novanto and Fadli Zon, the speaker and vice speaker of the House.

"Zon is a tacit supporter of the Islamic Defenders' Front (FPI), the hardline Islamist group that organized massive rallies against Jakarta’s ethnic Chinese governor this fall, and which engages in various cultural offensives like banning Santa hats from Indonesian malls.

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"Before each of their big rallies, the FPI leadership met with Fadli Zon, who warmly embraced them," said Indonesian journalist Made Supriatma.

<< 72 percent of Indonesians favoured the introduction of Sharia law. In Malaysia, 86 percent of respondents said they did, higher than the percentages recorded in Pakistan, Bangladesh & Egypt

Of the survey’s respondents who favoured Sharia, 60 percent of Malaysians & 48 percent of Indonesians thought stoning to death was an appropriate penalty for adultery

In Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim nation, there has long been a fault-line between the santri, who adhere to orthodox forms of Islam, & the abangan, who practice more syncretic versions of the faith

ISIS supporters [worldwide] send an average of 2.8 million messages per day to global followers over Twitter

Pan-Islamism is working to transplant local identities with a commitment to a more puritanical, cross-border approach to ummah, the Islamic community ... liberal Islamic organisations are keen to stress localised, nationalist forms of Islam as a counter-narrative

Intellectuals such as Chandra Muzaffar of Malaysia & Azyumardi Azra of Indonesia, to name just two, have long argued that universal values like freedom, democracy, & modernity can be compatible with classic Islamic teachings. More conservative voices argue to the contrary. Open discussion, however, can be difficult in Indonesia.

Irwan Johan, a vice speaker for the Provincial Legislature of Aceh, said recently that despite a “silent majority” who think the semi-autonomous province has gone too far in its imposition of Sharia law – which it introduced in 2001, the only Indonesian province to do so – most people are “not brave enough to say anything.” He said since politicians could be voted out & individuals ostracised from communities, “Everybody became a hypocrite.” >>